ROOT Tutorial 2013

Topics

This tutorial aims to provide a solid base to efficiently analyse data with ROOT. After an introduction to the C++ programming language, the main features of the ROOT toolkit are characterised: from histogramming to advanced fitting techniques.

Material for the course

The material consists of slides of the lectures and Twiki pages for the exercises. Further material available is a "Diving into ROOT: a ROOT Guide for Beginners" in electronic form Guide Examples ). This guide is a valuable support for the course: the basics of ROOT are discussed and simple examples are provided.

Detailed Material

1: Introduction

Introduction to ROOT	Slides
Start Using ROOT	Slides Exercises
Introduction to the C++ Programming Language	Slides Exercises

2: Histograms and Fitting

Working with Histograms	Slides Exercises
Fitting in ROOT	Slides Exercises

3: Trees and I/O

Introduction to ROOT I/O and Trees	Slides Exercises

4: RooFit and Proof

Introdution to RooFit	Slides Exercises
Introduction to Proof	Slides Example